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発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音, Canada, General Australian) IPA: /ˈsæv.i/
• 韻: -ævi

形容詞

savvy (comparative savvier, superlative savviest)

1. (informal) Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.
   • 2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “The Hunger Games”, in AV Club‎, archived from the original on 24 March 2012:

     That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.

同意語

• canny

派生語

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動詞

savvy (third-person singular simple present savvies, present participle savvying, simple past and past participle savvied)

1. (informal) To understand.
   • 1925, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXIV, in Arrowsmith, Harcourt Brace & Co., page 280:

     He's probably a perfect technician as a surgeon, but he knows you get only what you grab. Think of the years it's taken me to learn what he savvied all the time!

名詞

savvy (uncountable)

1. (informal) Shrewdness.

   Synonym: savviness

参照

• “savvy”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.